One independent clause; subject, verb, complete thought.
What is Simple Sentence?
100
A way to indicate italics (words that slant to the right).
What is Underlining?
100
Singular in form but names a group of persons, animals, or things.
What is Collective Noun?
100
This Summer month is known as the wedding month.
What is June?
200
Expresses an action or state of being.
What is a Verb?
200
Two or more independent clauses joined by a comma and conjunction or a semicolon.
What is Compound Sentence?
200
Subordinate clause that is used as a noun.
What is Noun Clause?
200
A verb and subject must agree in number.
What is Subject Verb Agreement?
200
_____________is summer's most popular vegetable/fruit.
What is Watermelon?
300
Renames a noun.
What is a Pronoun?
300
One independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is Complex Sentence?
300
Subordinate clause that modifies a noun or pronoun.
What is Adjective Clause?
300
A pronoun must agree number and gender with its antecedent.
What is Pronoun Antecedent Agreement?
300
July is National _________ Month. More Americans buy this in July than any other month.
What is Ice Cream?
400
Words that begin an adjective clause.
What is Relative Pronoun?
400
Two or more independent clauses and at least one subordinate clause.
What is Compound Complex Sentence?
400
Subordinate clause that modifies a verb, adjective, or adverb.
What is Adverb Clause?
400
The word a pronoun refers to.
What is Antecedent?
400
The Summer Olympics take place every four years. They were held for the first time in ___________ more than two thousand years ago.
What is Greece?
500
Nonstandard use of two negative words when one is enough.
What is Double Negative?
500
Pairs of words that join words or groups of words.
What is Correlative Conjunction?
500
Words that start an adverb clause.
What is Subordinating Conjunction?
500
Uses do, did, does as a helping verb.
What is Emphatic Verb?
500
Ancient Romans and Greeks blamed ________ for the extreme temperatures, drought, sickness, and discomfort that came in late summer. (Hint: Harry Potter's godfather)